Tonight was Day Two of the 12 class intermediate HoopGirl Workout Series. After having taken a 6+ month hiatus from teaching actual classes aside from Teacher Trainings, it was an absolute joy and thrill to be there. The class material has continued to progress and clarify over the years and it has finally arrived at a place of duplication which I can share at the next Intermediate teacher training. I am so ridiculously amped by the material...
I think in part because so much stems from my own deepened personal practice. HOnestly I have abandoned teaching general classes and performing over the last 6 months to focus on personal practice and deepening my own authentic skills. Now I am teaching what thrills me, and as a result I have lots of energy to share with students around it.
My Intermediate classes are at such a high bar - probably where many would place an Advanced class, frankly. I don't set up my classes around ego achievement so that someone who is not approaching mastership can be taking an advanced class... and that feels really good to me! That is probably why I have not really taught an"advanced" HoopGirl Workout yet... honestly I think I never owned being an "advanced" hooper myself until now! But after all this time, I finally feel real saying it. I'm an "advanced" level hooper! Yippie! And now that I can say that with confidence and I have a solid intermediate cirriculum, I'm ready to put Advanced classes out there. Sweet!
For me, hooping is so infinite in possibility that I am clear I must create a high bar for each level. That way, those who finally progress to the completion of a HoopGirl advanced class, obtaining mastery of both direction, have finally become "masters". I don't mean anything too status oriented with that word.. really it is just a recognition of what Baxter would call "flight time" or "grey feather". Someone who has put in the time to develop sweet chops. Someone you watch and immediately think, "wow!"
To me, the most rewarding achievement is to have played a part in someone else becoming and owning their own brilliance. Wether that means transforming something about themselves or owning mastery, it really doesn't matter. If I can help people feel good, I am blessed.
I LOVED watching students at their "edge" tonight, pushing themselves beyond where they would have gone practicing alone. To see the "a-has" and sweat and breakthroughs was a real gift. I am so grateful! I can't wait to teach more classes to this devoted group of hoopers. I live an amazing life. Gotta hit the sack. I am taking a 3 day Theta Healing course over the next 3 days and I am sure it will change my life.
xoxo!
Christabel